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How to use the word CONTAMINATE in a Sentence?

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What we know is the rats in Hong Kong carry the virus, and we test the humans and find the virus. But how exactly it jumps between them -- whether the rats contaminate our food, or there's another animal involved, we don't know, that's the missing link.

Siddharth Sridhar

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Exposure therapy can be very stressful and so is not always effective or even feasible for many patients, if you can provide an indirect treatment that's reasonably realistic, where you contaminate a rubber hand instead of a real hand, this might provide a bridge that will allow more people to tolerate exposure therapy or even replace (it) altogether.

Baland Jalal

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

This vaping, they say it is electronic. Don't give me that shit. Better stop it, I will order your arrest if you do it in a room... That is like smoking. You contaminate people.

Rodrigo Duterte

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I like the original movie so I'm aware I don't want to contaminate the nostalgia of the first one, what you want to do is embellish.

Guy Ritchie

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

What is new here is that, if one day we want to stock CO2 in Switzerland, which is a densely populated region, we need to make sure that the CO2 won't migrate into the surface and contaminate, for instance, drinking water sources. This is really one of the major stakes here.

Christophe Nussbaum

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We will maintain a clean education system, we will not allow anyone to contaminate our children.

Education Naftali Bennett

Found on CNN
8 years ago

This confirms that Duke has committed serious and long-standing environmental crimes, but it does not clean up the coal ash that is every day continuing to contaminate our drinking water.

John Suttles

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We object to oil fracking because their investments can contaminate portfolio returns.

Greenlight Capital David Einhorn

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Cyril Connolly

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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